The new movie is only half the book. It may be years before the second half of the book comes out. There is no conclusion in the movie -- it just stops. Each part of Lord of the Rings has its own mini-conclusion. Dune, Part 1 leaves you hanging, which is monumentally unsatisfying.
The actors are not as well selected for their roles as in the David Lynch version of Dune. Paul is an emo who might as well have stepped out of an anime cartoon. Jessica is weak. The Duke was wooden.
Visually, the new movie falls far short of Lynch's vision. It seems small and "made for television."
All the props and visual effects are inferior to those used by Lynch. Where were the space guild in their enormous mobile vats? Why did the seeker-killer look like a bug? Why are the personal shields so nothing-looking?
The new Dune did have a few good points. The Gurney Halleck character is much better developed than was the case in Lynch's movie. Getting rid of Sting's character was a good move.
Things that bugged me:
- The Reverend Mother was not as scary as in Lynch's version.
- The pain box she used was just stupid -- we could see inside it, for fuck's sake!
- If that black, crawling thing on the Harkonnen world was the Doctor Yueh's wife, we should have been informed of this fact.
- You can't really even see the force shield around the capital when it is up.
- The worms are oddly unthreatening.
- There was no tension when Paul and Jessica were fleeing across the sand from the worm.
- The thumper doesn't look or sound as good as the thumpers in Lynch's movie.
- The hair styles in the new movie are just boring.
Visually, the new movie falls far short of Lynch's vision
I thought it was better in parts, but they were over too fast for you to take it all in, this is a curse of every modern film now. Compare it to old French films which let you wallow in a scene until you feel you know the space. If you look at some frame gifs someone has collected they are perfect
This is maybe a fault of the books, there was not a lot of background detail of the people, apart from the fremen.
Yes, the mobile vats were a better visual I thought that was what the seeker-killer was supposed to look like? I may be wrong
The worms are oddly unthreatening
Yeh, "oh look, a giant worm... we should, umm, maybe save that spice harvester over there?"
There was no tension when Paul and Jessica were fleeing across the sand from the worm
Yep, there were better scenes in Tremors
The thumper doesn't look or sound as good as the thumpers in Lynch's movie.
Yep, designed to annoy moles at most
There was no tension when Paul and Jessica were fleeing across the sand from the worm
Yep, there were better scenes in Tremors
Ha! I actually thought the same thing as I was writing my post, but decided not to include it. The Tremors worms are much scarier.
I guess I took from the book that the worms represented something eternal and mythological, like they were as much a part of Arrakis as the sun and the sand.
But as a foreigner to the planet it probably should have elicited a bit more: "WTF is that thing?"
Some of these scenes are just like how I remember from the book, but I'm not sure they were described in the same way that someone would write a script for a modern audience.
Like the book was written in 1965, so back then just being on another planet was "drama enough" for a good story
Feyd-Rautha is going to have to be in the second movie or they're going to be forced to completed change the story. The character didn't do much in the first half of the book anyway, can be introduced later pretty easily.
I suppose. But I hated Sting in that role.
He was memorable, but far from good in the role.
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